Patently unpatentable.The U.S Patent and Trademark Office has rejected an application for a broad patent on the creation of human-animal chimeras. Last year, cell biologist Stuart A. Newman of New York Medical College New York Medical College is a center for graduate medical education located in Westchester County, a suburb half an hour north of New York City. This private university comprises the School of Medicine, which grants the M.D. in Valhalla and biotech bi·o·tech n. Informal Biotechnology. biotech Noun short for biotechnology Noun 1. critic Jeremy Rifkin Jeremy Rifkin (born 1943, Denver, Colorado), the founder and president of the Foundation on Economic Trends (FOET), is an American economist, writer, and public speaker. He is an activist who seeks to shape public policy in the United States and globally. of the Foundation on Economic Trends in Washington, D.C., filed for the patent (SN: 5/9/98, p. 299). They hoped to ignite a public debate on the patenting of life-forms and, if the patent was granted, block the creation of such chimeras. Their patent was rejected because a chimera "includes within its scope a human being," and people are not patentable, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the patent agency. Newman and Rifkin plan to appeal the ruling to the U.S. Supreme Court if necessary. |
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